Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-05-05
OFFICIALS HURT.
4 Train Upset with . Party OF Kansas
Oniciais-Seversi Injured-Other Serious


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Onicials-Seversi Injured-Other Serious
lIishaps.
HORTON, Kan, April 27-The special
train bearing the State Board Of Railroad
Assessors, which left here at 1880 o'clock
yesterday forenoon. jumped the track one
mile northwest, while en- route over the
northwest extension from this place to the
Nebraska State line, viewing the property
OF the Chicago. Kansas & Nebraska rail-
way On board were the following State
officials: E B. Allen, Secretary of State;
A P. Riddle, Lieutenant Governor, and
Timothy Mccarthy, State Auditor; also NJ.
A Low, president, and G. W. Fisher, gen.
eral manager OF tae Chicago, Kansas q
Nebraska railway and Judge ZeSers,
of the Iowa Supreme Court, father
in-law of Colonel Fisher. The en-
CINE was running backward, pulling
the Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska
official car Columbia, in which the gentle
men were riding, when, while passing over
an embankment forty feet high, from some
uneXplainable cause the engine and car
both suddenly left the track and rolled
down a steep embankment, injuring the
occupants more or less. DIR. Alien, Judge
levers and Governor Riddle were most
severely injured, but not fatally, while Col
onel Fishers back was hurt badly. Aud
itor Mccarthy and President Low escaped
with few bruises 1t Is hoped that none
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Gus. The track was in hrst-class condition
considering its newness and no possible
cause can be assigned for the accident.
The engineer and fireman miraculously
escaped uninjured, but Conductor Joyce
and Brakeman Blair were somewhat in
jured. The wreck was in sight of Horton
and was quickly surrounded by the entire
population, who rendered every assistance
possible. Judge levers was sent to Atchi-
son and all the rest to Topeka Allen and
Riddle are confined to their beds The en-
CINE landed wheels up on the hill, and the
engineer still on to the lever. He was
merely scratched.
RESERVOIR DESTROYED.
COLUMBUS, O., April 27.-The Governor
yesterday afternoon ordered the Toledo
company of the National guard to the scene
of the riot at the Paulding County reser-
voir. The information in brief as outlined
to the Governor was that 200 masked men
overpowered the guards at the reservoir
Monday night and blew up the banks and
saturated the locks and timber with oil and
burned them. The building occupied by
the gatekeeper was also burned. The
band worked all night cutting the dykes
with pick and spade. The volume of
water is thus largely reduced. though
the reservoir is not entirely drained.
AN GID BoMBsHELL-
HARPERs' FERRY, w. Va, April 37.-A
picnic party Sunday afternoon, on BollVar
Heights, above town, came across old
bombshell, relic of the war. 1t was taken
to Major CockrelPs house, and several
young men began pounding it with stones,
while the rest of the party gathered
around. Suddenly there was terrific ex-
plosion, and six persons about the shell
were seriously hurt, three fatally, each
having a limb blown off.
SERIOUS RUNAWAY.
ATLANTA, &C., April 27.-Just as the me-
moral day procession was entering Oak
land cemetery yesterday and while the
streets were thronged with troops and
spectators a horse became frightened and
ran away through the crowd, trampling
down the people and causing the widest
panic. One lady was kicked in the head
and so seriously injured that she may die,
and large number of other persons had
arms or legs broken or dislocated.
TERRIBLE STORM IN AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, April 27-The storm yesterday
was OF exceptional violence at Moravia and
Galicia. Twenty railway workmen sought
shelter in building which was struck by
lightning and two were killed. The others
were rendered deaf. Twenty-three peas
ants were crossing the river Saam during
the storm, when the boat was upset and
the greater number were drowned.